# Bat Man (TV Show) **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [July 12, 2002, 1:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bat-man-tv-show/118528 "2002-07-12T01:08:55Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Jinx](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/c6cbf5/32.png) [@Jinx](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jinx)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2002, 1:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bat-man-tv-show/118528/1 "2002-07-12T01:08:55Z")
Did they bother to colorize “Bat Man”? I swear the original Bat Mans said “This program in Black & White”…to clarify there was nothing wrong with your color TV! But, watching even the first Bat Man on TV Land, it’s in color. So, is it just my memory that’s turning gray? - Jinx P.S. What is it that nobody wants to have, and yet nobody wants to lose? ---
**Author:** ![DrFidelius](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/drfidelius/32/3447_2.png) [@DrFidelius](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrFidelius)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2002, 1:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bat-man-tv-show/118528/2 "2002-07-12T01:28:10Z")
Always in colour, as I recall. Maybe you only had a black and white TV at the time. ---
**Author:** ![Mockingbird](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c68b51/32.png) [@Mockingbird](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mockingbird)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2002, 1:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bat-man-tv-show/118528/3 "2002-07-12T01:30:23Z")
The Republic serials in the 1940s were black and white. The TV show from the 60s was always color. ---
**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2002, 3:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bat-man-tv-show/118528/4 "2002-07-12T03:07:08Z")
And there wasn’t a space between “Bat” and “Man”, man. ---
**Author:** ![Mockingbird](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c68b51/32.png) [@Mockingbird](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mockingbird)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2002, 3:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bat-man-tv-show/118528/5 "2002-07-12T03:18:44Z")
Although, for the first year it _was_ Bat-man. ---
**Author:** ![kingpengvin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/9dc877/32.png) [@kingpengvin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kingpengvin)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2002, 2:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bat-man-tv-show/118528/6 "2002-07-12T14:15:18Z")
Wasn’t a pilot done in Black and white? No wait the Pilot was the rip off of a Joker story using the Riddler it was definitely in colour (The Batusi scene still kills me) What I want to know is when Fox will release the series on DVD! My Kids are wearing out my machine playing the movie over and over! ---
**Author:** ![Zebra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/c0e974/32.png) [@Zebra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zebra)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2002, 2:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bat-man-tv-show/118528/7 "2002-07-12T14:37:39Z")
mmmmmmmuuummm Batgirl ---
**Author:** ![Mockingbird](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c68b51/32.png) [@Mockingbird](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mockingbird)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2002, 3:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bat-man-tv-show/118528/8 "2002-07-12T15:50:26Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Hastur \* > \*\*Although, for the first year it _was_ Bat-man. \*\* Let me add that it was for the first year of the comic book in 1939. ---
**Author:** ![kingpengvin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/9dc877/32.png) [@kingpengvin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kingpengvin)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2002, 5:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bat-man-tv-show/118528/9 "2002-07-12T17:00:43Z")
Also he has been Batman Bat man and of course “The” Batman ---
**Author:** ![mobo85](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b19c9b/32.png) [@mobo85](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mobo85)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2002, 7:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bat-man-tv-show/118528/10 "2002-07-12T19:28:44Z")
“Holy colorization, Batman!” _Batman_ premiered in 1966. Color became the norm for television programs in 1965. The Dynamic Duo just came in under the wire, and were not intentionally filmed in black and white. Always color. Same bat time. Same bat channel. (Note about the title of this post: In the first season, _Batman_ episodes on Wednesday ended in a cliffhanger resolved in the next day’s episode. The titles of the two episodes always rhymed with each other. “That, man, answers ‘no’” rhymes with the subject of the OP-“Bat Man (TV Show).”)